The Ministry of Education and Science introduces a ban on distance learning. The first mention of the law

“Universities want to abandon part-time education” - such a statement was made by the First Deputy Minister of Education of the Chelyabinsk Region Elena Kouzova at a press conference in the editorial office of AiF-Chelyabinsk. The elimination of distance learning will affect the vast majority of universities throughout the country. In its place will come full-time form. Students will attend couples in the evenings all year round, with tuition nearly doubling.

Get a second higher education or it will not be so easy to “finish my studies” being employed. Six weeks a year and two exam sessions will be a thing of the past along with the most affordable education.

Down with sloppiness

On November 1, 2018, regional universities will publish the admission rules for the next academic year. Then it will be clear who will be at the forefront of this reform. Although the first statements are already there.

“In our university, admission for full-time education ends September 5, 2018 director of the Chelyabinsk branch financial university Anatoly Yakushev.- From 2019, part-time education will replace part-time education. It will be held in the evenings three times a week for the entire academic year. Two couples from 18.20 to 21.30 and on Saturdays.

Learning will be more difficult. Imagine running to class after work, hungry and tired because you don't want to be late. This time. The second is the price. In 2018, distance learning at the university costs around 45 thousand rubles, a "point" - 110 thousand. So take the average amount, part-time will cost about 80-90 thousand rubles.

"Evening" education brings us back to the Soviet past, when absenteeism was almost zero. At the school, you still feel some kind of Russian sloppiness in relation to study.

Process started

“The changes are related to the quality of student training,” explains First Deputy Minister of Education of the Chelyabinsk Region Elena Kouzova. - "Zaochka" assumes complete independence and responsibility of the student himself, in part-time form, responsibility for the level of knowledge, including the responsibility of teachers.

We will be able to tell about the features of the reform only by the beginning of the next academic year, when we will be familiar with all the orders of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.”

Another question arises: are all universities ready to increase the burden not only on students, but also on teachers.

“There will be no questions about the lack of teaching staff,” continues Elena Kouzova. - Universities have no problems with personnel now. As for the other mode of work - outside the regular time, colleagues have the opportunity to earn extra money absolutely legally, officially and within the framework of the subject that they know well.

Cancellation talk distance learning started from 2016. Then the head of the federal Rosobrnadzor, Sergei Kravtsov, announced that from September 1, correspondence courses in legal, economic areas, as well as the direction of "state and municipal management" are cancelled.

SUSU confirmed that at the moment there is no distance learning, for example, in such areas as architecture and English language, jurisprudence by correspondence is possible only for those who receive a second degree. But Moscow State University has not been accepting correspondence for a long time, but this independent solution university leadership.

From September 1, 2016, it is planned to exclude correspondence courses in universities - for economists, lawyers and managers who receive higher education for the first time, said the head of Rosobrnadzor Sergey Kravtsov in an interview with the Rossiya 1 TV channel on Sunday, June 19. According to the official, the first higher education should be full-time, which will improve the quality of education and "seriously undermine the economic basis of pseudo-universities." RIA Voronezh correspondent found out how students, their parents, universities and employers feel about the prospect of partial cancellation of distance learning.

Students. Less interest in colleges

Anastasia Kavelina studies the economics of enterprises and organizations for full-time department one of the Voronezh universities. The girl works in her specialty. A third of the students in her group are people aged 30-40, for whom this education is the second higher education. According to Anastasia, the first higher education at the “external school” is received mainly by those who already have a college or technical school diploma.

– Back in the ninth grade, I planned that after college I would work and simultaneously receive higher education. If distance learning is canceled for economists, managers and lawyers, many simply will not go to college. I have a full-time job, I “distract” from work every six months, for the duration of the session, Anastasia Kavelina said.

According to Anastasia, working part-time students pay tax on the income of individuals, while the state does not allocate money for their education.

– Correspondence economic Education almost all universities pay, - reminded the student.

Universities. "Pitchfork on the Water"

In all universities, where the RIA Voronezh correspondent turned for comment, they said that they had not received any orders from the Ministry of Education and Science regarding the closure of the correspondence department for lawyers and economists. The university admissions campaign is in full swing.

At the Voronezh State Forest Engineering University (VGLTU), students are admitted to the correspondence department in two areas - "management" and "economics". paid training, budget places no. In 2016, the university planned to accept 50 managers and 60 economists.

- Talk about the elimination of correspondence education has been going on for many years, but all this has been written with a pitchfork in the water. We have not received any documents from the Ministry of Education and Science, and therefore the conversations are premature, - explained in the Morozov VGLTU.

The Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies (VSUIT), which also trains economists, managers and executives in absentia, refused to comment on Kravtsov's words, citing the fact that "Rosobrnadzor is the pinnacle of power in education."

- It is naive to think that someone will speak out about the decision of the authorities. If the Ministry of Education and Science is the employer, then Rosobrnadzor is the police, - the university explained.

At the same time, VSUIT believes that current economists and part-time lawyers, as well as those who enter in 2016, should hardly be worried. Even if the Ministry of Education decides to cancel distance learning and an official letter is sent to the university, the process of making changes to educational standards. This will take a lot of time.

Employers. Distance learning will be replaced by distance learning

Employers interviewed by a RIA Voronezh correspondent agree that it is not so much the form of training a specialist is important as his competence.

According to the head of the Pragmatik legal support agency Lev Babayan, the liquidation of correspondence departments at law faculties is a negative phenomenon.

- Young professionals who have just graduated from universities, but already have work experience, will disappear from the labor market. The advantages of part-time students are that they quickly adapt and are able to negotiate. In addition, not everyone has the opportunity to pay for full-time education. Although I prefer full-time students, because to work in my company, even a person with experience must be trained. Full-time students have lower salary expectations, they have not yet learned to shirk work, Babayan explained.

For Dmitry Nekrasov, director of the Young Business School, the form of employee training is unimportant. The main thing is the interest in the work, the desire to grow and be able to independently study the topics necessary for work.

- To replace the correspondence departments will come distance education. Some universities already teach economics, management and law via the Internet. The advantage of distance learning is that it can be combined with work, and in practice you can understand what you are given in theory, - said Nekrasov.

Parents. The main plus of the “zachki” is the price

In 2014, the son of Irina Soldatova Denis, after school, entered the correspondence department at a Moscow university, where he studies investment management. The cost of education is about 70 thousand rubles a year. Denis lives in Voronezh, works for an insurance company and has been paying for his studies on his own for two years now.

- My son wanted to enter the Faculty of Economics of the Voronezh State University, but he did not have enough points. We would not have pulled paid full-time education - then it cost somewhere around 70-80 thousand rubles. The son gave documents to the correspondence department of a Moscow university. Training cost 50 thousand rubles. We thought that it makes no sense to go to the correspondence department in Voronezh, when you can enter the capital's university, - explained Irina Soldatova.

Irina said that the daughter of her acquaintances is receiving a law degree in absentia and at the same time works in construction company, where, under the guidance of a more experienced lawyer, he learns to draw up documents. At work, her diploma is only expected in the personnel department.

Lawyers. Current students need not worry

After the statement of the head of Rosobrnadzor about the abolition of distance learning for lawyers and economists, parents and students began to fear that the “cleansing” would affect those who were already studying in these specialties. According to lawyer Dmitry Kazatsker, this is hardly possible.

- If changes are made to the regulations prohibiting distance learning, they should not affect legal relations (concluded agreements) that arose between the university and students before the adoption of the amendments. Under the law, the new provision may apply, for example, to new student groups, which will be formed after the entry into force of the changes, - Dmitry Kazatsker explained.

Ministry of Education. So far no change

In Rosobrnadzor, the correspondent of RIA Voronezh was sent to the Ministry of Education and Science, since Sergey Kravtsov only repeated the words of Minister Dmitry Livanov.

The Ministry of Education and Science stated that no changes related to correspondence departments are planned from September 1, 2016. The department also explained that various educational and methodological associations periodically offer the ministry to eliminate distance learning, but the matter has not yet gone further than talks.

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In the coming academic year Russian universities will be forced to abandon part-time education and external studies in most humanities specialties. A corresponding innovation is already being prepared at the Ministry of Education and Science. This measure, according to experts, on the one hand, can improve the quality of education, on the other last years distance learning has become more and more popular. And this means that its abolition will make higher education inaccessible to many potential students.

Recall that President Vladimir Putin also wrote about the need to improve the quality of higher education, including through the reduction or recertification of universities, in one of his programmatic pre-election articles. At the same time, emphasis was placed on the fact that in the coming years, secondary specialized education should be developed in Russia, since enterprises lack highly qualified workers. In this regard, it is not surprising that the Ministry of Education and Science decided to improve the quality of education precisely by reducing the correspondence departments in the humanities.

In particular, universities have already received relevant orders from the relevant ministry last week. Sverdlovsk region- they are ordered to halve the number of budget places due to the rejection of correspondence courses and external studies in a number of specialties.

“Correspondence education must be eliminated in principle. "Zaochka" is a substitution of education. We don't have secondary education. So there should not be a higher "zachka". We are talking about the first higher education,” the Vice-Rector for academic work Ural State Forestry University Sergey Kolesnikov.

It is interesting to note that even before the initiatives of high government officials, in 2010, the management of St. Petersburg State University (SPbGU) announced the rejection of part-time education.

“In the USSR, “correspondence” was a good social lift for young workers and peasants and the most common way to improve skills on the job, but in the current conditions, correspondence education has de facto turned into a way to get “crusts,” the then deputy head of the communications department explained with the public of St. Petersburg State University Konstantin Sholmov.

With the fact that the quality of distance education really leaves much to be desired, today almost all industry experts agree. Moreover, the elimination of the “remote” for the humanities is most likely only the first step. Experts do not exclude that in the very near future the Ministry of Education and Science will go even further in its endeavors and distance learning will be eliminated in all faculties. “External students are not just underspecialists. They are far from specialists,” Alexander Adamsky, scientific director of the Eureka Institute for Educational Policy Problems, states.

The key question, however, is why the quality of distance education is so low. One reason is the lack of funding. “For our university, the correspondence form is financially unprofitable: the 60,000 rubles that we earn per semester on a full-time basis (per student. - Ed.) cannot be compared with 12,000 rubles received on a part-time basis. You can’t teach anything for such a sum,” Yevgeny Malygin, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Ural State Transport University, does not hide. It turns out that the rejection of distance learning, which is presented by officials as one of the measures to combat the low quality of education, is nothing more than an attempt to optimize, or rather, reduce the cost of high school. If we assume that the funds released from correspondence students will be redirected to full-time departments, then theoretically one could talk about improving the quality of education, or at least increasing its funding. However, this is in no way consistent with general plans Ministry of Education and Science on a two-fold reduction in budget places in universities.

It is interesting to note that, at the same time, the demand for correspondence education in Russia has grown significantly in recent years. This trend became especially noticeable in the crisis years of 2008-2009. Then, according to the Ministry of Education and Science, at correspondence departments in Russian universities 3.5 million students studied, despite the fact that in total, 7.5 million people were educated in higher educational institutions at that time. This fact, according to experts, is evidence that during a crisis, most people seek to get an education, change or improve their qualifications, as they say, on the job. Now it looks like they won't have that option anymore.


With the development of new computer technology maybe interactive learning students, various forms of online classes with teachers, etc. It is not known what the inhabitants of places remote from civilization and the Internet will do in this case. Today we can say the following: while the initiative of officials is spreading to limited branches of specialties, for which there is an overabundance in the labor market. These actions are aimed rather at directing the flow of specialists in a different direction. Thus, officials expect to receive personnel for technical engineering professions, which are now in acute shortage in Russia. In addition, this is a significant reduction in budget places and funding for universities. The innovation does not apply to those wishing to receive a second higher education.

Will there be a cancellation of the "zaochka" in Russia in 2018

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The head of Rosobrnadzor, Sergei Kravtsov, announced the abolition of the form of distance learning in higher educational institutions in some specialties. Cancellation of distance learning in Russia in 2018 According to the head of Rosobrnadzor Sergey Kravtsov, from September 1, 2016, Russia plans to cancel the form of distance learning in universities in some specialties. In particular, we are talking on the training of specialists in the legal and economic areas.


The specialties of management and state municipal law are also mentioned. This applies only to the first higher education. Students who are already studying part-time in these professions will have time to complete their studies and receive diplomas. The innovation will affect only newly enrolled students.

The new standard of legal education comes into force this year

  • Article 28 Competence, rights, duties and responsibilities of an educational organization
  • Article 29 Information openness of an educational organization
  • Article 30 Local normative acts containing norms governing educational relations
  • Article 31 Organizations providing training
  • Article 32 Individual entrepreneurs engaged in educational activities

Chapter 4 Students and their parents (legal representatives)

  • Article 33 Students
  • Article 34 Fundamental rights of students and their measures social support and encouragement
  • Article 35 Use of textbooks, teaching aids, means of training and education
  • Article 36 Scholarships and other monetary payments
  • Article 37 Catering for students
  • Article 38 Clothes of students.

What will the ban on distance learning of lawyers give?

This proposal was made by representatives of educational and methodological associations in the field of management, economics and law. According to the head of the department of state policy in the field of education of the ministry, Alexander Sobolev, the wording of the standard has already been prepared, providing only full-time education in these areas. “We have half of the part-time students in the country - 2.5 million part-time students out of 5 million students. There are 40 percent of part-time students, even 60 percent is economics, law,” HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov agrees with the need for changes.
The Federal Chamber of Lawyers, on the contrary, criticized the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science: according to FPA Vice President Svetlana Volodina, her experience as a member of the qualification commission of the Bar Association of the Moscow Region suggests that part-time students are not always inferior in terms of knowledge to full-time graduates.

Law on Education of the Russian Federation. the foundation of the educational system of the state

This is probably justified by the fact that the second higher education is received by mature people who clearly understand why they enter the university and what they want to take out of the educational institution. For the most part, speech goes faster about optimizing the education system than about effective reforms. We hope that it is impossible to completely abolish the correspondence form in universities, this is a kind of discrimination against a certain category of the population.
It is necessary to bring the quality of education to the desired level, and not to abolish it. As part of our website, there is a special offer: you can use the advice of our corporate lawyer for free. All you need to do is to leave your question in the form below.

The Ministry of Education and Science thought about the ban on distance learning for economists and lawyers

  • emphasis on educating not only a literate, but also a cultured member of the society, who cherishes the historical heritage, natural resources and social values;
  • transfer of the learning process to a civilized legal format in all details and directions;
  • autonomous secular character of all educational institutions working on the state and municipal platform;
  • the opportunity to receive education at any age for representatives of any professions
    • Chapter 1 General provisions of the law Chapter 2 Education system Chapter 3 Persons engaged in educational activities
  • Article 21 Educational activities
  • Article 22 Creation, reorganization, liquidation of educational organizations
  • Article 23 Types of educational organizations
  • Article 24 Moscow State University named after M.V.

Law on Correspondence Higher Education

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The introduction of the all-Russian institute for the general improvement of the professionalism of teachers is another important innovation that allows teachers to constantly improve their knowledge and skills with all the ensuing benefits. A separate item highlights the priority of studying the Russian language and literature, expressed in such large-scale events as the Total Dictation, covering all regions of Russia. In addition, the latest edition regulated the following significant points:

  1. Gymnasiums and lyceums are now equated with general education schools.

This allows the entire population of the country to have access to a full package of modern programs;
  • the possibility of drawing up an individual learning schedule for students who, for one reason or another, cannot attend school on an equal basis with other students, has been determined.

    • Special education of any type should ensure the acquisition of a profession and qualifications. The content must promote mutual understanding and cooperation between the teacher and the student. March 17 at a meeting of the association " Global Universities". This proposal was made by representatives of educational and methodological associations in the field of management, economics and law.

    Another issue is to get a job with such an education. Employers are reluctant to hire specialists without work experience even after full-time training, let alone part-time. Correspondence education: advantages Correspondence education, first of all, allows people who cannot afford to study for 4-6 years without working to get a higher education.

    It's not a secret for anyone that "zaochka" has always been less expensive. This is the optimal form for categories with an average income and high employment. The categories with high employment include specialists working at the enterprise in their specialty, who need to get higher education; and expectant mothers who, after the birth of a child, have the best way out, without interrupting their studies, to switch to part-time education, etc.

    In addition, the population should have a free choice.

    Law on Prohibition of the First Correspondence Education website of the Ministry of Education

    Important

    MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. The Ministry of Education and Science is discussing the introduction of a ban on distance learning in a number of specialties as the first higher education. This was stated by the head of the department in the field of higher education of the Ministry of Education and Science Alexander Sobolev at a meeting of the Global Universities Association. “Meaningful innovations that can be introduced into the standard through a series of expert discussions are as follows. If we talk about educational areas related to the social sciences, a number of colleagues representing educational and methodological associations in the field of management, economics and law, and this initiative is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science and Rosobrnadzor, propose to exclude correspondence education in these programs as the first education, ”- Sobolev said.

    What specialties are covered Correspondence education was canceled or not? At the moment, the law has not entered into force. Students can study on correspondence department for all offered specialties. However, it is obvious that representatives of Rosobrnadzor and the leadership of universities will develop effective steps to provide an alternative and move away from this method of education.

    The opportunity to get a second diploma will remain for established, employed adults. Unlike most part-time students, for whom higher education will be the first, they strive to gain knowledge for advanced training, making significant efforts. Pros and cons of the adopted law If the law comes into force, we can talk about moving towards improving the quality of education, minimizing corruption and improving the work of universities, which are rapidly enriching themselves through correspondence courses.

    In mid-2016, there were active talks about the adoption of a law that would abolish the possibility of receiving distance education in certain specialties:

    Economist;

    Manager for Public Administration.

    Restrictions were planned to be introduced from September 1. The main initiator of the innovation is the head of Rosobrnadzor Sergey Kravtsov.

    Before the law to abolish correspondence education was first discussed, other representatives educational system declared the negative effect of such a form of education.

    Official and unofficial reasons for the abolition of correspondence education

    It is not yet known whether there will be restrictions on obtaining the first higher education, whether correspondence education will be canceled in full, or whether this initiative will be extended to specific specialties.

    The main reasons for the introduction of the law:

    Improving the quality of education. The actual effectiveness of this method of obtaining knowledge is minimal. Most get it "for the crust." They don't realize that employers are following this trend. Now it is difficult to get a job even for full-time employees without work experience;

    According to Kravtsov, a number of universities have turned into stores selling diplomas. In fact, they are unable to provide quality education. The destruction of such establishments will reduce the problems for students;

    Redirecting flows of students to the specialties needed by the country. Now engineers and representatives of other technical specialties are needed;

    Budget optimization. Useless part-time students on budget education spend taxpayers' money. Universities make good profits without providing quality education.

    The correspondence system of education is a relic of the 20s of the XX century. It has not shown high results for all the years of its existence.

    Results of 2016. Law conditions. What specialties are covered

    Correspondence education canceled or not? At the moment, the law has not entered into force. Students can study at the correspondence department in all offered specialties.

    However, it is obvious that representatives of Rosobrnadzor and the leadership of universities will develop effective steps to provide an alternative and move away from this method of education. The opportunity to get a second diploma will remain for established, employed adults. Unlike most part-time students, for whom higher education will be the first, they strive to gain knowledge for advanced training, making significant efforts.

    Pros and cons of the adopted law

    If the law comes into force, we can talk about moving towards improving the quality of education, minimizing corruption and improving the work of universities, which are rapidly enriching themselves through correspondence courses. But this normative act will affect the interests of those who, for certain reasons, cannot continue full-time education (for example, young mothers). We will soon find out if the new law will come into force.

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